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Internet Of Things 6 Garden View 8 Uke Can Do It 10 Easter Traditions 12 A Good Read 14 Savings Accounts Explained 16 Shakespeare Day 18 Puzzle Pages 20 St George’s Day 22 Local Info 24 April Recipe 26 The Grand National 28 Index of Advertisers 30 Published by Spotlight Local Media Ltd Company No. 6841257 Tel: 01623 706570 Suite 104, 1 Hanley Street Nottingham NG1 5BL Graphic Design and Layout: Spotlight Local Media Distributed by Best Distributions Trusted Delivery Partner of the Spotlight Magazine
So I went in the shop today and the place was piled high with barbecues for sale. Is that a good sign I wonder? Are we in for a good summer? Still a bit early to tell I suppose. At least the days are getting longer, things need doing in the garden and summer holidays are on the horizon. It’s all good! Please remember that if you are thinking of getting any work done on your home or business this winter season, consider giving our supporting advertisers a call. And if you are a local business that would like more customers, we can help with that too! Spotlight magazine is delivered to 6,000 homes and businesses in the Mansfield South area each month, with similar magazines going to Mansfield North and West Bridgford. To Advertise or contribute: T: 0115 822 4995 E: info@spotlightlocal.co.uk Web: www.spotlightlocal.co.uk
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The Internet Of Things What is it and how does it work?
The ‘internet of things’ refers to electronic devices connecting to each other using the internet. It’s a way to collect information and improve efficiency. Take as an example, a Fitbit or other fitness-tracking device. These give you an indication of how many steps you’ve walked or ran in a day, your heart rate, calories burned and so on. You can also synch one to an app on your phone, or to an online account. Then you can check your progress over a week, how you compare to other people you’re sharing information with, how many calories you’ve burnt off and so on. If you also sync your account up with ‘smart’ scales, it’ll keep track of your weight and BMI, to give you a fuller picture of your health in one place. Smart homes Smart home devices are becoming increasingly common. They let you control your heating, hot water, lights and other technology while you’re out of the house.
like someone is home. At least you know your security cameras will send an alert to your phone if they detect any movement. On the way home, you nip to the supermarket, but can’t remember whether you need milk. A couple of clicks and your smart fridge has sent you a photo of its contents. After buying the milk, you turn your heating on, and set your coffee machine to have a brew ready for when you get in. Smart health The internet of things isn’t just about making our lives a bit easier. Trials are underway to see how it could help people with preexisting medical conditions. Medical devices that patients use at home can collect data to give healthcare providers a
better picture of a patient’s day-to-day health. Doctors can even be sent an alert if measurements go above or below a safe level. Smart cities By using smart technology, and acting on data, cities could become more efficient. From bins that send an alert when they need emptying, to traffic lights that help reduce congestion, the internet of things is set to bring about a lot of changes. It may seem like sci-fi, but it might not be that long until you’re travelling in a driver-less vehicle, which knows exactly where there’s an available parking space, and any road closures to avoid on the way to your destination. The future is looking smart!
Let’s say you’re running late from work. You realise you’re going to miss your favourite TV programme, so you use your phone to set it to record. You also postpone the heating coming on, and turn a light on so it looks
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Garden View This Month- Fuchsia Perfect
I love hardy fuchsias. They are some of the most rewarding plants to grow. They are easy to propagate, flower well and are not the least bit temperamental. They are named after a 16th Century German herbalist and physician called Leonard Fuchs. Lots of gardeners struggle to spell fuchsia but if you think of his name and stick and ‘ia’ on the end you have it! In mild areas or at the seaside they can grow into huge shrubs. Elsewhere hard frosts see off most of the top growth in winter, then new shoots burst up from the soil in the spring, maturing into small shrubs about 2-3 feet / 60-100cm tall. At this time of year rooted cuttings are cheap. Grow them on for a few weeks under cover, changing the pot to a slightly larger one as they grow, then plant them out in May. Choose a sunny spot in well-drained soil. Make sure you pinch out the shoot tips frequently. It delays the flowers a little but they will become bushy little plants which produce more flowers in the longrun. Once they are mature you can more or less leave them to it. Simply sprinkle a handful or two of fertiliser around them in the spring and again in the summer. There are lots of lovely
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varieties. “Mrs. Popple” is tall with red and purple flowers. “Mrs. W. P. Wood” is paler with pearly flowers. I have a soft spot for “Whiteknight’s Pearl” which is a beautiful pale pink. If you have a smaller plot try “Tom Thumb” or “Alice Hoffman”. It’s a little known fact that the berries and inner petals of fuchsias are edible (though it’s worth noting that ‘edible’ doesn’t mean they necessarily taste good!). However there is now a variety bred especially for eating. It’s called “Berry”
and produces fruit with a flavour something like a sweet fig. The fuchsia berries are rich in vitamin C and antioxidants. They don’t have a long shelf life so pick them when they are soft and squishy and eat them fresh. Or you can freeze small quantities as you collect them, until you have enough to make fuchsia jam or add to muffins, much as you might add blueberries. Happy Gardening. By Rachael Leverton
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Uke Can Do It Too! It’s Fun And Easy To Learn
“A ukulele is not a guitar with training wheels! “ ‘Uke’ can do it too! I began to learn the ukulele properly about a year ago. I acquired a cheap instrument for Christmas one year, learned a few chords from You Tube, strummed a few songs, lost interest and carried on with my life consigning my ‘toy’ to a shelf. Then one day while surfing the web I came across a video of a guy named Jake Shimabukuro. Google him playing Bohemian Rhapsody and prepare to be amazed. I was completely taken aback by his musicianship. My ‘toy’ was not a toy after all…it was a proper musical instrument, capable of making an awesome sound. I took it off the shelf and looked at it with new respect. Suddenly I wanted to learn to play like Jake! I began a search for a ukulele teacher and found a classical guitar teacher who also taught ukulele. I was hooked from my first lesson. At first people would laugh when they visited us and saw my ukulele. They made references to George Formby and Tiny Tim. So I would play them a little bit of Spanish Flamenco (known as Flamencolele when played on a uke) or an Etude, and their mockery turned to surprise and delight.
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My children learn violin and piano and were studying for their grade five exams. I wondered if I could do something similar on the ukulele. I took my Grade three exam at the beginning of this year and passed with a distinction. I’ve moved on from my first cheap ukulele and bought a beautiful Tanglewood concert uke on the advice of my teacher. I’m still a long way off playing like Jake Shimabukoro but I’m improving every week and having so much fun on the journey. Here are some things I’ve learned along the way: It’s easy to play the ukulele…badly! The ukulele is certainly a simple instrument to pick up and get going on but like the recorder it suffers from being bought as a cheap toy for children. Also, all instruments will sound a bit ropey at the start of your musical journey, though the ukulele much less so than a recorder I have to say!
experience schools tend to be very bad at imparting a life long love of anything. I’m sure if I’d been forced to play ukulele at school that I might not have picked it up as an adult. After all, if schools inculcated a life long love of a musical instrument, surely everyone in the UK would play the recorder! People assume I am learning the ukulele as a stepping stone to learning the guitar. This is not the case. Noone thinks a violin is not a training instrument for the cello! It might look like a small guitar but it is a separate instrument with its own characteristics, sound, and musical repertoire. What sounds great on a violin may not work on a cello, and the same goes for ukulele and guitar. A ukulele is not a guitar with training wheels! Though if playing one inspires you to learn the other I say go for it!
To play any instrument well takes time and practice, but the payoff is worth the effort. Many schools are teaching ukulele now, which is both wonderful, and alarming. In my
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Unusual Easter Traditions How Will You Celebrate Easter
If you need ideas check out these unusual traditions Pace Egg Plays were once a widespread way of celebrating across rural England. Performed on Good Friday the drama involves a form of a combat between a villain named Old Tosspot and the hero St George. Historically the actors were working class men and women who toured the villages performing in pubs and on the street as a way of earning extra money. In the plays someone is always killed, this may be St George or a Turkish Knight known as Bold Slasher. The poor fellow is however revived by a comic doctor, linking to the Easter themes of death and rebirth The use of the word Pace is linked to the Latin word Pacha which translates to Easter. The egging part comes from the fact that performers were given eggs which were wrapped in onion skins and carefully boiled.
The Pace Eggs were sometimes rolled but the practice of egg rolling has become a tradition all on its own both in the UK and abroad. Usually hard boiled eggs are decorated and rolled down a grassy hill with an ensuing competition to see whose egg can roll fastest and remain unharmed. The exact symbolism of egg rolling isn’t clear, but as eggs have links to the Easter and Spring themes of rebirth, renewal and fertility this seems to provide some reasoning for it. If you are looking for a different type of activity on Easter Monday, then you might like to consider the traditions of Whipping Monday linked to countries such as Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
In Slovakia women are doused by men with water and whipped with braided willow branches. This is said to symbolise youth and strength and make women healthy for the Spring. The men then get a reward from the lady in question which is a dyed egg, a ribbon tied around their whip and for adults an invite in for some food and vodka. Some men also receive coins. In the Czech version there is no water. Just the whipping and here the implement is called the pomlazka and the tradition ends at noon. I think I’ll stick with eggrolling! Whatever you end up doing, have a Happy Easter!
They’d receive other gifts too, including money as an incentive to perform by the crowd. Some believe the phrase ‘to egg someone on’ originates from when rival groups of performers found themselves in the same village and traded insults, had wooden sword fights or even try to steal each others Pace Eggs.
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A Good Read in the current day court case. Ballantyne successfully transports us back to a cold farm in the North of England where Daniel finally finds the warmth and love he has been looking for in the shape of his foster mother, Minnie.
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne It is true that the premise of this book may put some people off: eight-year-old Ben is found dead in a park and eleven-year-old Sebastian is arrested and charged with his murder. With echoes of other high profile cases it does ask us to question how our behaviour as adults can lead to horrific consequences. However, it is a very wellwritten and gripping novel. The focus of the story is Daniel, a solicitor chosen to represent Sebastian in court. Despite the child being quite difficult to warm to, Daniel sees something of himself in the boy and he begins to recall his own childhood as the son of a drug addict, who spent most of his time in foster care. Here the narrative splits and we discover his story in the mid-1980s interspersed
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a child not to do something and they most certainly will and so this novel – the first in the series – has been a hit with readers since it was first published in 1999. With a new adaptation premiering on Netflix it seems a perfect time to return to the original story.
She immediately takes to this boy that no one else wants and an unlikely relationship develops between them.
Set in a timeless version of our world we are introduced to the Baudelaire’s: Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny.
What becomes apparent though is that something went very wrong with the relationship and as an adult, facing the death of Minnie, and the trial of young Sebastian, Daniel is forced to confront his own childhood whilst we are left wondering who the guilty one really is.
Their life is turned upside down when their parents die in a house fire and they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a mysterious man who lives in a crumbling mansion and owns a theatre troupe.
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket There are some children’s books that invite you in. Literature has long been used to escape from the real world and children’s literature is no exception.
You know from the beginning that this will not end well and are told “if you enjoy books with happy endings then you are best of reading another book.” You have been warned! By Willow Coby
Whether it is an escape to a magical boarding school where you realise you are someone special, or a fantastical journey down a rabbit hole, you can expect to be welcomed into the new world for the next 200 or so pages. Not so here. There is a very clear warning that you do not want to learn of the terrible events that will occur to the three Baudelaire children. But tell
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Savings Accounts Explained The Most Popular Options
Whether you’re saving for a holiday or a rainy day, there are lots of ways you can earn interest on your money The most popular options include: Cash ISAs Cash ISAs let you save up to £20,000 a year tax free. Fixed-rates ISAs tend to earn you more interest than easy-access ones, but you will have to pay a penalty if you withdraw money early. The new Lifetime ISA is for people under 40 who are saving for their pension, or for a first house. You can save up to £4,000 a year and the government will top it up by 25%. Bank accounts Some bank accounts are currently offering higher rates of interest than savings accounts. At the time of writing this article, Nationwide was offering 5% interest on balances up to £2,500, for the first year, for people paying in at least £1,000 every month. However, to use a bank account to save money in, you might want to open a separate account. That way your savings won’t disappear on paying the bills. Keep an eye open for offers.
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Savings accounts Savings accounts aren’t paying huge levels of interest at the moment, but they are still worth a look.
Whether you want a guaranteed return or are prepared to take a risk in the hopes of making more money.
Regular savings accounts, where you put a fixed sum away each month, usually pay a little more. And ones where you lock your money away for a set time pay more again.
Whether you want to save regular amounts each month, or lump sums.
The interest rate is still pretty low in most cases though, so you might want to consider other options first. It’s not just about the AER AER stands for Annual Equivalent Rate. It shows you the percentage of interest you’d earn if you left your money in an account for a year. While the AER is certainly an important deciding factor, it’s not the only thing you’ll want to consider.
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Shakespeare Day
Shakespeare Day will be celebrated on 23rd April. The date is linked to the date he died; as no one knows when Shakespeare was born because there is no record. It is known however that he was baptized on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. Those celebrating may choose to attend the festivities held in Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. This is where Shakespeare, who was one of eight children, spent much of his early life and where he married Anne Hathaway who bore him three children. He is also thought to have retired to Stratford in 1613. The bells of Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare attended as a child will be rung and the Mayor will
lead a procession which includes bands, other civic leaders, school children and actors. This will culminate with the Mayor putting flowers on Shakespeare’s grave. There will be activities for the whole weekend 22-23 April in celebration. The Globe theatre in London is associated with the time Shakespeare spent in the Capital as a playwright, actor and poet and houses an exhibition in honour of him. In Warwickshire’s Stratford, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre brings to life his work which includes 38 dramas and 154 sonnets. Here you can also visit buildings, houses and museums associated with the ‘Bard.’ It’s a great destination for Spring break.
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St George’s Day
Did you know that St George never actually set foot in Britain? It’s believed he was born in Lydda in Palestine, or in Cappadocia (now in central Turkey), and brought up in Palestine. His father was a Roman soldier, and when his parents died, George decided he would travel to Nicomedia (Turkey) to join the Roman army. He served for several years, progressing up the ranks to become an imperial guard of the Emperor. George was a devout Christian, and was tortured and executed for refusing to give up his Christian faith. It’s believed that he was killed on 23rd April 300AD, which is why St George’s Day is celebrated on April 23rd each year. So where does the dragon come into it? The legend of George and the dragon dates back hundreds of years, to the 11th century, if not earlier.
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According to the legend, a dragon was terrorising a small village. The villagers would sacrifice their children to appease the dragon. One day George was riding past the village and met a young princess, whose turn it was to be sacrificed. George rescued the girl and offered to slay the dragon for the villagers, if they would convert to Christianity. They agreed, so he killed the dragon. Today the Feast of St George is celebrated in countries across the world, including Palestine, Syria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. If you’re taking part, perhaps you could adopt the old English custom of wearing a red rose in your lapel on St George’s Day.
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The Perfect Brow
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The forehead is slightly wider than the jaw, which curves gently, and the cheekbones are high) as it tends to suit many styles of brow. However one rule to follow is never create oval shaped brows on an oval shaped face. The current fashion is to have really quite defined brows that are also defined in colour. Eyebrow tinting or a semi-permanent brow powder are both excellent to create definition, especially when applied with a stencil.
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Easter Recipe Ingredients Cakes 140g soft unsalted butter 140g caster sugar 3 medium eggs 100g self-raising flour 25g cocoa powder Icing 85g milk chocolate / or plain if you prefer less sweet icing. 85g softened butter (I actually like salted butter for the icing but unsalted works well). 140g icing sugar (sifted) Mini chocolate eggs of choice for decoration. Method For the cakes: Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/ gas 5 and put the cases into a fairy-cake tin. Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and beat for 2 mins with an electric hand-whisk until smooth.
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An Act Of Kindness
Act of Kindness sees Bilsthorpe man sleeping rough for poorly children. Chris Spittlehouse has spent two days sleeping rough to raise money for two poorly children from his own community of Bilsthorpe.
Deputy Head at the Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy Jenny Pavier said that the staff and pupils wanted to help. “This is such a worthy cause for the two children and we hope that Chris is successful in raising his goal amount.
Father of three, Chris said that when he heard of the childrens’ illnesses he wanted to help. “I am doing this because of two local children, Dawson Wilcox and Elise Bettison. Little Dawson is 16 months old and has been diagnosed with cancer and Elise, who goes to school with two of my children at Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy and needs open heart surgery.
We want to let the families know we are thinking about them and hope that the children get well.
I want to raise enough money to split 50/50 between each family to help with medical and travelling expenses.”
Chris has a go fund me page at https://uk.gofundme.com/39n1ktc
This community is a caring and strong community and I know that everyone will be wishing the children and their families well and we will all support them in any way we can.”
Chris says his aim is to raise £3000 and has already received substantial proportion from his friends and work colleagues at Yearsley Logistics where he is a Training Coordinator and the local school, Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy has raised £236 to add to the collection. He says that local people have rallied behind the families and have been donating generous amounts. When he pitched up his shelter outside the local shops for the long haul, neighbours tried to brighten his stay with pot plants! The first day saw high winds and rain and one local man bought Chris a fish supper from the local chip shop to keep his spirits up and pupils from the school took Chris sandwiches, a drink and a chocolate bar!
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